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  • NSO considering killing Pegasus spyware under financial & lawsuit pressure

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    dantheman827 said:
    I would rather Apple actually fix flaws like these instead of hiding behind the censorship of lawsuits.
    I agree.

    But I actually think that if the NSO Group stopped selling Pegasus, the source code would be eventually sold to someone and proliferate wildly on the dark web. (Then maybe Apple could buy it and really harden iOS against these exploits.)

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  • Morgan Stanley expects Apple to be 'game changer' in Augmented Reality

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    aderutter said:
    I feel more compelled by AR than VR.

    Factors like motion sickness and exclusion of the real world steer me from VR.

    With AR I see more tangible possibilities:

    Landmarks in cities and on-road directions.
    Personal 3d concerts in my living room.
    Holograph-style virtual meetings.
    Historical sites brought to life - taking you back in time. Education could be massive with AR.

    I completely agree that AR has a much more widespread application. How Apple gets this info into the eye in an unobtrusive and innocuous way is the key that no one has solved yet.

    I foresee a lot of health applications for AR (as an athlete, as a diabetic, etc.), especially as the Apple Watch becomes more capable.

    I know that oft-used "spiderman" picture above is for VR, but one widespread application for VR would be watching movies/shows/concerts in a new immersive format (22july2013 seems more informed than I). No more need for 75" TV's!
    watto_cobra

  • Qualcomm predicts it will supply only 20% of modems for 2023 iPhone

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    blastdoor said:
    For the other 80%, I wonder if Apple will need to pay Qualcomm some patent royalties. 
    I don't remember reading that QC was going to sue Intel when Intel were developing the 5G modem for Apple, so I suspect that Apple's purchase of Intel (from Infineon/Siemens) had enough IP to insulate Apple from QC.

    Or Rmoo's answer is correct.

    Either way, I look forward to an Apple 5G modem! What I don't know is if the TSMC process for the A-series chips is compatible with that of a 5G modem, i.e., would separate chips be required (A-series + modem chips) or one combination chip is possible (further reducing iPhone/iPad cost).
    watto_cobra

  • Apple hires former Tesla engineer to bolster its self-driving car project

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    byronl said:
    dk49 said:
    byronl said:
    apple is hiring but tesla is hiring more. they literally increased their AI job applicants by 100x after their (mind blowing) AI day. and they have exponentially more real world car driving data than everyone else. i really don’t know how apple will compete in the self driving technology race.
     but they’ll probably figure something out. they hired sandy munro so that was a great move. 
    i don’t know how they’ll compete in terms of self driving tech, manufacturing tech, etc but i know they will create a beautiful car with an amazing user experience.
    When did Apple hire Sandy Munro? 

    sorry to exactly "hire" as an employ but hire his company for help.
    he got all anxious when asked about the apple car and refused to talk about that.
    in another livestream q&a he got asked about apple car and he said something like "nda, next!"

    Very interesting possible connection!

    I'm a fan of Munro. Brutally honest on product design and manufacture from a technical point of view, especially during the early days of the Tesla Model 3 (spoiler: he bashed it) until Tesla cleaned up their design (and Munro and Musk actually discussed Tesla's progress).
    byronl

  • Apple hires former Tesla engineer to bolster its self-driving car project

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    byronl said:
    byronl said:
    apple is hiring but tesla is hiring more. they literally increased their AI job applicants by 100x after their (mind blowing) AI day. and they have exponentially more real world car driving data than everyone else. i really don’t know how apple will compete in the self driving technology race.
    And yet, reports from owners are it is quite dumb. Like Siri dumb. Like you will die or kill people dumb. These are such early days that no one has a lock on the market. 

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/cars/tesla-full-self-driving-fsd/index.html

    that's not true at all. tesla does have a lock. let me explain why.
    tesla is using a different method than everyone else. waymo, cruise, apple, volkswagen, ford and others are using lidar and hd, 3d, human-annotated maps. that's fine but it's VERY expensive to scale. these companies have only made these maps for small cities and a small amount of big highways. you have to pay people to annotate and clean up those maps, and keep them UPDATED as everything changes, for eternity. good luck doing that for a whole country or the whole WORLD. i should add that lidars are expensive (a waymo car costs like 400k$, partly because of the multiple lidars it requires). i should also add that these companies have hit a local maximum since ~2019. https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-automation-reportedly-struggling-refine-self-driving-tech-2019-6

    tesla uses a different approach. it only uses cameras for self driving, it uses AI computer vision to do it. that approach is better because it's cheaper and a LOT more scalable. some other companies are using this approach too (such as mobileye) but AI needs data. the most data and highest quality data will win. and tesla has that, so they are able to train their AI like no one else. not only that but their data increases exponentially, and others are falling further behind instead of catching up. another big part is their amazing dojo supercomputer. the most powerful AI supercomputer in the world, #5 overall. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/22/teslas-dojo-supercomputer-breaks-all-established-industry-standards-cleantechnica-deep-dive-part-1/

    the article seems to ignore the "beta" part for the most part, and acts like average consumers are using the software package right now. this is not the case. check out dirty tesla or ai drivr on youtube to see fsd beta in action. it's really great, the article is definitely exaggerating. and the rate of improvement from about a year ago when it was first released is astonishing.
    if you wanna learn more i would recommend watching tesla's AI day, at least the part about self driving. it was one of the most impressive tech events i've ever watched. you will definitely love it if you are a tech fan
    dr know it all on youtube is also great to understand tesla's big advantage.
    I think Tesla's "camera only" approach is different than the rest of the field using LIDAR+cameras, but I see this aspect as completely separate from Tesla's AI/vision full self-driving (FSD) approach, which is to not rely entirely on pre-determined or human-curated maps for navigation. The FSD approach attempts to read the environment in real time (with map info), knowing that unplanned events (people, bicycles, road construction, accidents, altered signage, etc.) can significantly affect navigation. GM's SuperCruise is only allowed on curated highway maps right now as it is a more controlled (and smaller) environment than city streets. Look at some of the videos by Tesla's Andrej Karpathy explaining how their FSD processes and analyzes the vehicles surrounding environment in real time. Fascinating stuff, even if you don't like their approach.

    Dojo is also interesting but has a very narrow application (AI training of neural nets) and appears to be for internal use only (like Apple Silicon).

    Self-driving is obviously far more complicated than anyone expected, especially Musk, but I wouldn't say Tesla have a "lock" on it just yet.

    I have a friend who was granted access to the FSD beta on his Model Y. He says it is quite amazing but still has some quirks. If the self-driving race ended today, Tesla probably would win, but I think the race is far from over.
    byronl